Shapir, Olga (1850–1916)
Shapir, Olga (1850–1916)
Russian novelist and short-story writer. Name variations: Olga Andreevna Shapír. Born 1850; died 1916; grew up on the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg; married a physician (exiled for political activism).
Attended one of first public secondary schools for girls in Russia; worked for women's emancipation and pacifist ideals; novels include Without Love (1886) and In the Stormy Years (1907); also wrote shorter fiction and plays.
More From encyclopedia.com
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev , Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
The Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was… Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov , Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
The Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) is one of the great realists of Russian literature. His… Vladimir Nabokov , Nabokov, Vladimir
DIED: 1977, Montreaux, Switzerland
NATIONALITY: Russian-American
GENRE: Fiction, poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
King, Queen, Knave (1928)
Spea… Ivan Alekseevich Bunin , Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1… Yevgeny Zamyatin , Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) was the creator of the novel We (1920), a science fiction satire on totalitarianism tha… CALISHER, Hortense , CALISHER, Hortense
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 20 December 1911. Education: Hunter College High School, New York; Barnard College, Ne…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Shapir, Olga (1850–1916)